‘Compositions in red’ (2012
‘Compositions in red’ (2012

SYM bagged the first prize in an On-the spot Painting Competition sponsored by Shell Oil Company in 1967 and quickly established himself as a figurative painter. In 1981, he migrated to Vancouver, Canada. SYM has since moved away from his highly figurative works strongly influenced by the French Impressionists, to a fragmented form that Vicente Manansala referred to as “Transparent Cubism.” In 2014, he held a successful exhibition in his native Cebu.

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